fc5t2 - no selected packages - rpm fails / not yum(my)

David Timms dtimms at bigpond.net.au
Sat Jan 21 08:08:35 UTC 2006


On a low resource notebook, during gui installation all packages were 
unselected (including "base system"). The install completes, and 
reboots, with text only login as expected. [used about 390MB of disk 
space, 720MB free.]

1. #yum
  command not found
ie, not installed. Including yum would make for much easier dep 
resolution as you add the particular packages that you want to the 
minimal install. How much bigger would absolute minimum be if yum (and 
:. dependencies) were included when no packages groups are selected ?

Perhaps a group called "base operating system" (that can't be unselected 
- it is the absolute minimum requirement for a booting kernel) with the 
following options:
rpm  rpm-libs  yum  mc  ftp  ssh  slocate
would be appreciated by similar minded folks ?

2. #rpm
rpm: error while loading shared libraries: librpm-4.4.so: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory
#ls -l /usr/lib/librp*
   No such file or directory.
#ls -l /bin/rpm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rpm rpm 83732 Jan 10 02:20 /bin/rpm

manually copying on librpm-4.4.so, then librpmdb-4.4.so, then 
librpmio-4.4.so, then librpmbuild-4.4.so from a FC4 system has got rpm 
operating.

  # rpm -qa|grep rpm
rpm-4.4.2-12
but
doesn't rpm need rpm-libs ?

Without a working rpm, much harder to put packages on... Is this known 
or needs bz'ing ?





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